Non so perché non ci sono le bici





Welcome to the first stage of the Giro del Trentino, which starts in Arco and goes to Riva del Garda for a team time trial with 13,4 km in it.


The first team that starts are Neri Sottoli, who probably have looked at the profile wrong because they put hope in their sprinter: Chicchi. The riders likely to finish the highest in the GC will probably be Failli. They set the bar at 18’00�.

Second off is Champion System, where Grawunder and Pinotti are the biggest engine for the train today in support of Kim Po-Ding. They have no trouble beating Neri Sottoli with a time of 17’16�.



Cofidis puts hope in Pellizotti to perform in his home country, however it’s seems unlikely that the Itailian will crack the top 10 in this race seeing the competition. With a time of 17’46� (2nd) they have a average start.

CCC Polsat uses two riders from the UCI talent development in Nokkvason (who’ll be the team’s leader in the mountains) and Di Silverstro (who’ll lead the team in the TTT). With decent support Nokkvason has a chance to crack the top 10. They start with 17’53�, good for 3rd place



Next up is probably the team of the overall winner, Movistar. With Nairo Quintana at the start of the race. Overall victory seems just a matter of time. With a time of 17’36� (2nd), they lose some seconds to Kim Po-Ding



Team Sagan without Sagan also known as regular Cannondale is hoping that Caruso can lend some of Sagan’s strength to finish in the top 10. If Caruso doesn’t succeed however, Team Sagan will still be Team Sagan. Cannondale finishes with a time of 17’50� (4th).



Katusha isn’t having to greatest of the season so far with slightly disappointing results. They hope that Spilak will finishing in the top 10 and realistically perhaps even a top 3. They stop the clock at 17’43� (3rd).



MTN will probably have trouble finish in the top 10 with Kudus, Berhane and Pardilla in the team’s line-up. If there is a possibility for a breakaway GC win, MTN is a favorite for it. They set a 17’56� (7th).

NetApp can be considered being the development team, seeing how much König has developed and now is preforming at BMC. Dominik Nerz has the potential to be the next one. He has to prove himself though and in this race he can already make a name for himself. They set 17’50� (6th)



With Colombia’s persense here would seems understandable but they riders they have send are just weird. Sprinters Barbero and Romero being here is just weird. Pires probably will finish the highest in the GC. 18’06� (10th) is their finish time.

Caja Rural has Alarcon in the team and they are hoping that they can have him finish in the top 10. He has decent support although the appearance of the two Haedo are probably not the best use of their race days. 18’12� (11th) is their time.

Sojasun is in the same boat as MTN, hoping for a breakaway upset with Hivert, Feillu and Pauriol. They need to play catch up as they set a time of 17’48� (5th)

Vacansoleil is hoping on a miracle of Visconti to finish in the top 10. Tankink and Hoogerland as his best support means he’ll need to do a lot on his own. Their time is 17’46� (5th)

Giant has transformed from sprint team to GC team and with Hesjedal, Poels, Jungels and Peterson it already shows. With Hesjedal in their leagues they have a contender for top 3. They start with 17’23� (2nd) gaining some seconds on Quintana already

Lampre is hoping on a revival of Scarponi and Ulissi to show how good he really is. If that happens a double top 10 might be possible. They start good with a time of 17’38� (4th)

Euskaltel needs a good result from this race as they don’t have the greatest of seasons yet. Their leaders are De las Campos and probably has the best support of the whole race. this support though does give some time on the other favorites in the TTT though with 17’44� (6th)



IAM will be looking towards La Bestia for a top 10 and Reichenbach will probably works as support. With a time of 17’54� (13th) they already lose a good chunk of time.

The rider where the public is looking toward the most is Italian national champion Cataldo. However Owniak probably will be the team leader this race. with 17’46� (8th) they lose some time but nothing to serious



Team Champion System spend most of the day on the hotseat and no teams were able to beat their time set early on. Pinotti will take the first leaders jersey although the manager will probably not be too happy that Kim wasn’t at the first five finishers, meaning he lost 2 seconds on the rest of his team.

Rank		Team	General Time
1		Team Champion System	17'17 (1)
2		Team Giant - Shimano	+ 7 (2)
3		Movistar Team	+ 20 (3)
4		Lampre - Merida	+ 23 (4)
5		Team Katusha	+ 27 (5)
6		Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 28 (6)
7		Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	+ 30 (7)
8		Vacansoleil - DCM	+ 30 (8)
9		BMC Racing Team	+ 30 (9)
10		Sojasun	+ 32 (10)
11		Cannondale	+ 34 (11)
12		Team NetApp - Endura	+ 34 (12)
13		CCC Polsat Polkowice	+ 37 (13)
14		IAM Cycling	+ 38 (14)
15		MTN - Qhubeka	+ 40 (15)
16		Neri Sottoli	+ 44 (16)
17		Colombia	+ 50 (17)
18		Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	+ 56 (18)
19		Cyclingteam De Rijke	+ 2'02 (19)

Rank		Name	Team	Time
1		Marco Pinotti	Team Champion System	17'16
2		Vladimir Karpets	Team Champion System	s.t.
3		José Rujano	Team Champion System	s.t.
4		Gang Xu	Team Champion System	s.t.
5		Kin San Wu	Team Champion System	s.t.
6		Janier Acevedo	Team Champion System	+ 2
7		Po-ding Kim	Team Champion System	+ 4
8		Lars Grawunder	Team Champion System	+ 7
9		Bob Jungels	Team Giant - Shimano	+ 8
10		François Parisien	Team Giant - Shimano	s.t.

Non so perché non ci sono le bici





After yesterday’s victory Champion System will need to keep track of the peloton and will hope that Kim Po-Ding is able to beat opponent Nairo Quintana, Damiano Caruso and Ryder Hesjedal. Although a breakaway win seem unlikely but if they have a solid gap at the foot of the final climb, things might go difference from what people expect.



We have a first try, first succeed breakaway and it’s a big one. 8 riders in total and they are Hoogerland (VCD), Gusev (COF), Berhane (MTN), De Marchi (CAN), Feillu (SOJ), Rebellin (CCC), Asquez (CJR) and best rider in the GC Maté (KAT). they are probably looking for the KOM jersey, as a rider finishing in the top 2 on both early climbs will receive more than the stage win.



At the intermediate sprint the already have 7 minutes while Maté picks up the points for the respective points jersey.



Asquez has no trouble picing up the points in front of Hoogerland and Rebellin. The gap has gone down to 6 minutes while Maté is the first rider to drop and to be caught by the peloton.



Asquez repeats this feat at the second climb meaning he’ll wear the KOM jersey tomorrow. Berhane and Hoogerland are second and third. The gap is down to 4 minutes and they probably will be caught before the climb.


the peloton has the breakaway in sight

The pace is not high enough according to Failli (Neri Sottoli), he’s trying to get clear from the peloton and make an amazing solo.


I couldn’t afford a Neri Sottoli jersey

We’ve started the final climb and Gusev and Feillu have attacked from the Peloton. They only have 2 minutes left to the peloton while Failli hasn’t caught the breakaway yet.



The peloton has also exploded, Scarponi is the first to attack. Pellizotti counters but can’t get in his wheel. Scarponi has no trouble catching Feilli.



Quintana immediately shows the old man his age and goes over Scarponi. Pellizotti is able to hang on his wheel while Scarponi, De Las Campos and Spilak are just behind him.


Owniak (BMC) and Hesjedal (Giant) just watch


Quintana won’t stop at the breakaway and now only Feillu is in front of him. In the “best of the rest� group meanwhile we see that Spilak, Scarponi, De las Campos, Pellizotti, Owniak and Hesjedal have found each other, will need to try to hold the chasers off. La Bestia, Kim, Caruso, Acevedo and Schwabe will need to do the opposite however.



The two peloton chase group have joined up with eachother although Schwabe is dropped and Le Bestia isn’t looking to good. They still need to catch up to the breakaway (22 seconds), the riders that have attacked from the breakaway: Feillu and De Marchi (48 seconds) and Sole leader Quintana (1’12�)



Quintana still leads the race while the chasers has joined up with the breakaway. Asquez is in front of the chasers while Caruso is barely in front of the expected: Owniak, Kim, Scarponi, Hesjedal and Spilak, Pellizotti and De las Campos



Owniak seems to be the strongest behind Quintana today. He closed up with Caruso to from the 2nd group with Scarponi not being able to do so. Behind Scarponi we have Kim, Hesjedal, Spilak and Asquez



Nario Quintana wins the first stage and takes over the leaders jersey from Champion System.



Owniak beats Caruso for second place.



Scarponi will take 4th place.



Spilak beats Kim and Hesjedal for 5th while Pellizotti, La Bestia and De las Campos finish 8th, 9th and 10th.



Quintana takes the stage, the overall, the points and youth classifications leads. Owniak will wear the Green, while Aquez leads the KOM competition. Kim will wear the white again. Champion System keeps lead of the team classification.

Rank		Name	Team	Time
1		Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	4h05'37
2		Damian Owniak	BMC Racing Team	+ 1'56
3		Damiano Caruso	Cannondale	s.t.
4		Michele Scarponi	Lampre - Merida	+ 2'17
5		Simon Spilak	Team Katusha	+ 2'30
6		Po-ding Kim	Team Champion System	s.t.
7		Ryder Hesjedal	Team Giant - Shimano	s.t.
8		Franco Pellizotti	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	+ 3'17
9		Matteo La Bestia	IAM Cycling	s.t.
10		Cristiano De las Campos	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.

Rank		Name	Team	Time
1		Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	4h22'54
2		Damian Owniak	BMC Racing Team	+ 2'14
3		Damiano Caruso	Cannondale	+ 2'22
4		Po-ding Kim	Team Champion System	+ 2'33
5		Ryder Hesjedal	Team Giant - Shimano	+ 2'37
6		Michele Scarponi	Lampre - Merida	+ 2'40
7		Simon Spilak	Team Katusha	+ 2'57
8		Janier Acevedo	Team Champion System	+ 3'18
9		Franco Pellizotti	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	+ 3'46
10		Cristiano De las Campos	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 3'49

Rank	Name	Team	General
1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	25
2	Damian Owniak	BMC Racing Team	20
3	Damiano Caruso	Cannondale	16

Rank	Name	Team	General
1	Juan Pablo Asquez	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	20
2	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	16
3	Johnny Hoogerland	Vacansoleil - DCM	16

Rank	Team	General Time
1	Team Champion System	12h45'10 (1)
2	Movistar Team	+ 5'05 (2)
3	Team Giant - Shimano	+ 6'31 (3)

Rank	Name	Team	General Time
1	Nairo Quintana	Movistar Team	4h22'54 (1)
2	Damian Owniak	BMC Racing Team	+ 2'14 (2)
3	Po-ding Kim	Team Champion System	+ 2'33 (3)